Hillary to Obama: You're No JFK (or MLK)

ABC blogs ^ | Jan 7, 08 | ABC news blogs

[PizzaDriver]

""Today Senator Obama used President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to criticize me," she said, according to ABC News' Eloise Harper. "Basically he compared himself to two of our greatest heroes saying, 'Well, they gave great speeches.' President Kennedy was in the Congress for 14 years. He was a war hero. He was a man of great accomplishments and readiness to be president. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. led a movement. He was gassed, he was beaten, he was jailed. And he gave a speech..."

[tillacum]

You forgot John’s dad who delivered a lot of money around to get his son into the Whitehouse. He became a hero because he got in the way of a large Japanese ship and his boat got hit.

[SE Mom]

And this too- an absolute must read on Obama

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/obamas_alinsky_jujitsu.html

[Gumdrop]

If this was not so humorous I’d almost feel sorry for Hillary.

She cannot go after Obama for his glibness, and shallowness. He’s such a good speaker, but has nothing of substance to him. If she does, she’d considered mean.

So, she’s in a bad spot here. It could not happen to a more deserving politician. She has such a history of yelling and accusing every one else, that nothing she says is taken seriously anymore. She looks so desparate & jealous (which is what she is right now!).

[tillacum]

Our uncle John was a member of JFK’s PT boat that was run over by a Japanese ship. That part is always left out.

[tillacum]

mk, you’ve brought some memories of long ago. I remember those days well. I remember wondering why those kids in Arkansas were disliked so for wanting to go to school, I was young then. I grew up in an area where everyone was “alike”, not in appearance, but accepted. I was living in FL during the Cuban crisis pulling weeds from the flower garden. All the B-52s and 1 KC-97 were moved north just in case FL was hit. We also had some U-2s come on base to overfly Cuba. I remember reading of the kitchen talks too and Khrushchev pounding his shoe on a podium. Memories....

[Neu Pragmatist]

Yes , don’t think it was the plan . Hillary needs a Dim from a Redstate . Obama would serve no electoral purpose , with Illinois being deep blue .

[bronxboy]

I was watching Iowa when Sen.Obama gave his speech. I have to tell you, I think this guy will be darn tough to beat. He has a beautiful wife, adorable children...almost Kennedyesque (John not Teddy). People are looking for a change...if McCain is the candidate, forget it. The Repubs will lose big. Independents will go for Obama. I would not be surprised if some Repubs vote for Sen. Obama as well. McCain is really disliked amongst Republicans.

[mkjessup]

My FRiend, those were some sobering days. I remember bringing home a school notice asking parents to please donate canned goods, fruit juices, blankets and other necessities in case the Soviets and their little sock puppet Castro made good on their threats and started lobbing atomic warheads at us, and without exception, every family sent whatever they could in case us kids ended up having to spend a couple weeks or so holed up in our schools post-strike due to radioactive fallout.

And I remember the ‘duck & cover’ drills, and what infuriates me even now are these stupid and ignorant people who babble about “hiding under a desk wouldn’t protect you from a nuclear blast!” and to whom I respond every time with: “no sh*t Sherlock, we knew that then, and we know that now, but jumping under a desk when the flash of a nudet (nuclear detonation) was seen meant that when the blast wave arrived, if the school building itself could withstand the blast pressure, we might *not* be shredded into a million pieces due to flying glass and other debris.”

Whereupon those geniuses get a dumb ass look on their face and say something like “ohhh, I didn’t think of that”.

Yeah, imagine that.

Good to share some memories with you Tillacum, my best to you and yours in this New Year.

MKJ

[warsaw44]

I took no pleasure in hearing that old Navy man tell me the JFK story. For me, there was something very American about JFK’s heroics during WWII so to hear the truth wasn’t so much fun.

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By the way, I met about 10 career navy officers when your old carrier the JFK was in Boston last summer. They were in a nice club I frequent and when they had their fill of beer, wine and port me and the other regular made sure they never saw their bill. They paid not one dime. Really a good group of men. One of them was kind enough to give me a JFK carrier medallion.

[tillacum]

And a Happy New Year to FRiend.

I remember a story about Boeing in Seattle. Whoever (?) sent out a notice something like “Should Seattle be under Atomic attack, stay at your desk, if the Bomb and Wave don’t get you, Puget Sound will. Downtown Seattle will disappear, as it is nothing but fill. I can imagine that gave the employees a great feeling of security.